and we need to stand firm on some policies that are going get this economy growing. and that's where you hear us talking about the importance of tax reform, the importance of balancing a budget in ten years. the importance of spending reforms, spending reductions before just raising the debt ceiling. and yet on the aisle and president obama raising the debt ceiling with no conditions. a clean vote to raise the debt ceiling. and the reason we find ourselves in grid lock is because that's never going to happen. that's never going be acceptable to the republicans just to raise the debt ceiling without there being some conditions attached to that. and even president obama when he was senator and we don't need to add to the debt ceiling, add to the deficit. we need to take further action. it's easier to talk about what needs to be done versus the hard work of getting it done. so the reason we find ourselves where we are right now is because either very politically difficult decision that we have to make. it means that we're not going be able to just continue the current p